{"id":4138,"date":"2017-04-30T05:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T05:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4138-taliban-launches-spring-offensive-vows-to-carry-out-more-attacks\/"},"modified":"2017-04-30T05:59:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T05:59:46","slug":"taliban-launches-spring-offensive-vows-to-carry-out-more-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/4138-taliban-launches-spring-offensive-vows-to-carry-out-more-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban launches spring offensive, vows to carry out more attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan announced the launch of their new spring offensive under the name of Mansoori, vowing to carry out more attacks across the country.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan announced the launch of their new spring offensive under the name of Mansoori, vowing to carry out more attacks across the country.<\/h4>\n<h4>The group says the operation has been named after their former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, claiming that they had major achievements on the political and military level under his leadership.<\/h4>\n<h4>The group also claims that their operation will have two phases, a civilian phase to provide good administration and support to the civilians in the areas under their control, while the military phase will focus more on seizing more areas and carrying more attacks in the form of coordinated attacks, guerilla attacks, suicide bombings, insider attacks, target killings, and more.<\/h4>\n<h4>The group says the operations have been launched at 5 am local time on Friday, the 28th of April, across the country.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan announced the launch of their new spring offensive under the name of Mansoori, vowing to carry out more attacks across the country. \u00a0 The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan announced the launch of their new spring offensive under the name of Mansoori, vowing to carry out more attacks across &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,497,664,44],"class_list":["post-4138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-afghanistan","tag-attacks","tag-country","tag-taliban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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